a gift from my 10-years-old self, to my 22-years-old self.

you may have recall my little hill of junk from a while ago that looked like this:

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don't ask me how many pieces there are, because i honestly didn't know..

considering the fact that somehow, something has gone wrong in my head,

and i got rid of the box that came with it,

which had the picture of the completed puzzle

and a label which could tell me how many pieces there are supposed to be.

but anyway,

it's kind of sad to think that it's been in this shameful state for over a decade now.

so these two days (actually... ~1.5days),

i've been doing this:

 

 then i got to a point where it looked like this:

(at this stage i found out that this is a 1000-piece puzzle.

*imaginary gun shoots self in the head. bang.*)

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then finally,

by the second morning, (due to two nights of insomnia) it looked like this:

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you would think that it looked perfect, but noooooooooOO!

because, guess what:

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so, having nothing better to-do + pressure from my inner perfectionist self,

i've decided to make those missing pieces myself.

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step 1: find a cardboard.

like this one.

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step 2: trace out the missing pieces.

like this.

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step 3: cut out the pieces and label them so i won't mix it up.

(because i'm clumsy)

 like that.

i made two copies of each missing piece because my cardboard wasn't as thick as the one used in the puzzle.

after cutting them out, tape the respective clones together with some double-sided tape.

then leave it aside.(no need overnight XD those who used to watch Art Attack should get this joke...)

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step 4: sketch out the drawing on the missing piece, on a separate piece of A4/white paper.

 macam ini.

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 dan ini.

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step 5: colour~

 it's annoying how the missing pieces have complicated colours.

you would think that the violet part was painted with violet.

unfortunately, no.

the violet part was painted by a color-combination of violet,dark purple and a little bit of black.

so after coloring the said piece,

tape it to the cardboard with some double-sided tape again,

and test it by fitting it into the hole.

 hmm....close enough.

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step 6: repeat step 5 to patch up the other hole.

 macam ini,

macam ini,

dan ini.

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that's how it's done, kL style.

whhaaaatttt~~~~